OP is under the impression that The Venture Bros "filters" people as if it's some higher form of kino. In reality, it was kino for it's first two seasons, then it devolved into severe navel-gazing homosexualry.
I listened to the commentary on their last season and they sounded so disinterested in their own show but still smuggly said they were getting an 8th season.
The new president of Adult Swim wasnt putting up with their shit anymore.
Listen to the commentary. Its so cringy hearing "we'll pick up on this in S8" and knowing what happened.
The only reason the VB stayed on as long as they did was because of the President of the channel liked them. Now that he left they weren't going to put up with their long turn around times for episodes and canceled them.
That's funny. I hated the NYC seasons because the plots either ended way too quickly or were too boring to follow. Like the whole guild thing with Doc being offered as a sacrifice to the Monarch is just a big build-up to him saying frick you, and to balance out all that waiting we have Brock kill a bunch of guild goons that were there for no reason.
>The Guild before your time tried to do a hostage thing. Jonas Venture. The big man and his space station. Ah the 80's, we did that back then. Dumb kid's gonna get famous. Notorious. We dressed as crew members. Some of us had our space suits on, some of us didn't. With this face? The helmet never came off. Went perfectly. Flawless. Well, until someone opened the bay doors. No one knew who did it. The crew shot out like their mommas were ringing the dinner bell. You ever see a man die in space? You can tell the one's that held their breath. Their lungs rupture from all that gasss expanding. Blood from their mouth like a torn pillow stuffed with red BBs. Stab Girl, she was a little thing, carried switch blades. She knew to exhale. Watched her for a full minute, puffed up like she had a peanut allergy. Floating by me with her mouth open... screaming, making no sound, the spit on her tongue boiling. Anyway, got to see a little Sharky's Machine!
i also like how the more recent seasons have cast the VAs from the DCAU's Batman (Captain Sunshine), Lex Luthor (Red Death), and Joker (Presto Change-O)
A lot of characters start out kind of one-note or annoying but become a lot more developed or likeable as the show goes on, like Dermott or Shore Leave
basically the direct opposite of the flanders effect
Colonel Gentleman's List of best Venture Bros Characters
#1 Colonel Gentleman
#2 Watch and Ward
#3 Brock Samson
#4 Hank Venture
#5 Colonel Hunter Gathers
#6 Henchman 21 Gary
#7 Dr. Orpheus
#8 Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture
#9 H.E.L.P.eR
#10 Dean Venture
#11 Brick Frog
#12 The Action Man
#13 The Monarch
#14 Dr. Henry Killinger
#15 Henchman 24
#16 Dr. Z
#17 Action Johnny
#18 Augustus St Cloud
#19 Baron Werner Ünderbheit
#20 Fat Chance
#21 Shore Leave
#22 Red Mantle and Dragoon
#23 Dr. Mrs. The Monarch formerly Dr. Girlfriend
#24 Phantom Limb
#25 Professor Impossible
#26 The Alchemist
#27 The Cap'n
#28 Master Billy Quizboy
#29 Pete White
#30 The Master
You know this scene was cut down a lot? His list is like 5 minutes in the original version
Also >Red Mantle and Dragoon so low on the list
Every single line they have is great tho
Red Mantle and Dragoon should be higher, Shore Leave too.
Molitov wienertease and Dermott should appear somewhere too, lose The Master and Prof. Impossible and that's a solid list. Man I hate H.Jon Benjamin as a VA.
it has major flaws, but at heart its a solid list.
>been watching this show for 6 years >megafan, have all the DVDs, soundtracks and the art book >only met another person who watches this a month ago
So this is what it's like when doves cry.
I have the titmouse venture bros S5 t shirt club shirts still. at least the ones my ex didnt steal.
SPANIKOPITA!!!!
>mfw it's revealed that in reality they're just standing still while the battle unfolds in their minds
that would be some KINO. have everyone looking at them and shit explodes with investors getting fricked up.
its how they should do saidar battles in WOT.
he means sgt. hatred, shore leave wasn't a pedo
gays reproduce by touching children
I suggested we watch this movie in school. We did and my teacher yelled at me in front of the class.
Commie Venturestein was cool even they only brought him back for one episode. His goal of creating a sovreign nation for all the victims of super-science was very sympathetic, and I think the show would've benefited from it's own version of Big Boss. Also, Sgt Hatred should've stayed with Venturestein's group instead of sticking around for season 6 and 7.
Colonel Gentleman's List of best Venture Bros Characters
#1 Colonel Gentleman
#2 Watch and Ward
#3 Brock Samson
#4 Hank Venture
#5 Colonel Hunter Gathers
#6 Henchman 21 Gary
#7 Dr. Orpheus
#8 Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture
#9 H.E.L.P.eR
#10 Dean Venture
#11 Brick Frog
#12 The Action Man
#13 The Monarch
#14 Dr. Henry Killinger
#15 Henchman 24
#16 Dr. Z
#17 Action Johnny
#18 Augustus St Cloud
#19 Baron Werner Ünderbheit
#20 Fat Chance
#21 Shore Leave
#22 Red Mantle and Dragoon
#23 Dr. Mrs. The Monarch formerly Dr. Girlfriend
#24 Phantom Limb
#25 Professor Impossible
#26 The Alchemist
#27 The Cap'n
#28 Master Billy Quizboy
#29 Pete White
#30 The Master
I watched all the venture brothers recently, and while there are some aspects I enjoy, it meanders and backpeddles all the time damn time, which is extremely jarring when binging the show. Even the best parts, the character development, gets strangely thrown out and brought back in to get thrown out more than once.
>been watching this show for 6 years >megafan, have all the DVDs, soundtracks and the art book >only met another person who watches this a month ago
So this is what it's like when doves cry.
never get people to start with season 1. I usually tell people to start anywhere mid-season 2 and go back if they like it. "escape to the house of mummies pt 2" was the first episode I ever saw and it immediately piqued my interest
it's not like the spoilers from the end of s1 really matter anyway
>escape to the house of mummies pt 2
I spent a good few days trying to find part 1 when that episode premiered. Somehow convinced myself that Hammer and Publick weren't just trolling with that title.
that's why i always liked it as an introductory episode. You're thrown into the middle of the story with no context, but that's exactly the point of the episode
>cut him open, we're gonna put the boy in there >pwheh, and I thought he smelt bad on the outside!
>Oooooh. Yeah, of course. Oil! Yeah, makes sense now. I thought you told me to fill it with hot voile. >W-what the hell is "voile"? >It's a soft sheer fabric. I warmed some up in the dryer. >What th- Are you insane? What kind of torture is that? Get out here! I'm serious! I don't even wanna look at you anymore
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>GIVE ME THE HAND OF OSIRIS > Give me head
Legend
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Brocks line "This is getting STUPID" lives rent free in my head to this day
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For me it's
READY THE ACID MAGNET
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For me its "Im not yelling at you, Im telling at you"
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That and "Keep it clean. Dont let dames get in the way."
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super fricking runaway
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Thanks for making the thread, it makes me feel less alone. VB is my absolute favourite show, and also I always put it on while lifting for Brock inspo. The early seasons really capture that pulp adventure feel that I loved so much as a kid, although personally I was more into puppet shows like Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray than Johnny Quest. There's still plenty of references to those like the OSI Hoverquarters.
For me 'student green is people..... IT'S A MADHOUSE! A MADHOUSE!'
Season 1 is rough, I only persevered because everyone said Season 2 was so much better. There are gems in it though, the pirate episode, Rusty's old college roommate, all the Brock freakouts. It's more enjoyable on rewatch because you understand everyone's characters more.
>It's more enjoyable on rewatch
I definitely agree with this, I remember not liking the first season at all but I really enjoyed it on rewatching.
I think all the GCI and stuff world building has gotten a little bit out of hand in the later seasons and season 1 is just so simple and charming by comparison
Also I think the gag where Samson just throws a screaming Major Tom off the side of the ship in the Ghost Pirates episode, and the Captain is just like >"Well we could've done that."
Is maybe my favorite gag in the entire show, the timing is just so funny
I never understood this. I liked the show a lot more after the first season but season one was still really fun to watch. It’s funny, the action is great, and the characters are already likable
I finally sat down and watched the first season about a year ago, which is definitely the weakest, but is retroactively made great because of the absolutely AUTISTIC attention to continuity and natural character development the writers have. You can tell this show comes from a place of love and passion by the end of the second season, which is when I got fully hooked and watched everything. Not only one of the best cartoons ever made, but one of the best TV shows period. I was VERY sad when adult swim said they were getting rid of it. I implore friends to stick with it as the first season is the most episodic and still trying to find its stride, but it legitimately has some of the best characters in any medium I've ever seen. They're simultaneously ridiculous and very grounded and believable as real people.
The information was played on the AS bump before the episode premiered. I can't find the bump, but here's some info on it: Specifically, I can't find anything about this, so it might have been asked at a Comic-Con or something like that, since I attended every single one. >An eighth of the budget of this episode was spent on licensing for the song "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)" by Tim Cox and Nigel Swanston featuring Rozalla, specifically the 2002 Aquagen remix, which played over the opening montage. >The producers had to fight tooth and nail with Cartoon Network to give them the licensing to do so, a fact parodied in the later episode Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny.
Hot tip for any Cinemaphileutists lurking in this thread: Like A Friend also goes really well with Chaper 97 of Chainsaw Man. You just have to pace your reading a little bit so that the song ends just as you get to the final page.
>That run to the hangar >that song >that perfect moment where everything is gonna be all right >that even more perfect moment when everything is gonna be all right by being all wrong >FIX IT! >Song continues during the credits
It was the perfect ending, I loved it so much. That said, I still enjoyed the seasons after it.
One thing that I never thought about until recently is just how much the Venture Bros is a purely masculine show.
It's all about legacy, discovery and appreciation of art.
We get pure brutalist action, then deep character drama then just pulpy nerd shit which is Doc Hammer gushing over Duran Duran or David Bowie.
Just a pure, based show.
I don't really like season 4 though (besides the last 3 episodes), Jackson said he got burnout during that one and it really shows, the only time the show really spun its wheels and got on my nerves.
Can't wait for the movie. The Aqua Teen DVD movie is coming out in November so hopefully the Venture one will be early 2023.
funny, s4 is head and shoulders above as my favourite season, with most of my favourite episodes. I also thought Brock was kind of stale as the bodyguard by s3 and I liked the hank/sgt. hatred dynamic more. I would never have guessed JP was burnt out during it, it felt like they were doing the most fun stuff during that period
Yeah, so Seasons 3 and 4 were ordered back to back because Season 2 did so well in the ratings. Each of them were meant to be 13 episodes, as soon as they finished Season 3, they began on Season 4 straight away without taking a break.
They got really stressed and overworked, and had a late 2009 deadline to meet.
Jackson went to Lazzo and said "How about we just finish the 8 we're working on now, and I'll give you 8 next year as well?", and he got to take a big holiday.
That's why season 4 has 16 episodes and went on hiatus in the middle.
>genuine nice guy who just wants to make the world a better place >Rusty hates him and he gets killed off
His death scene in Gargantua 2, Rusty suddenly realises he'll miss him, it's pretty sad stuff.
🙁
The actions scenes are fun and the character drama is insanely relatable. Rusty being in the shadow of his father just ads so much to the show and its rewatchability.
I like how the show sort of unfolds like a big comic book, the characters are well written too
Yeah, the worldbuilding is great, they take care with a lot of stuff that most shows wouldn't and there's a lot of littered details that make everything feel super thought out.
I like the characters and the worldbuilding I guess? I don't know, most of the humour just comes from the characters and their banter rather than big jokes or one liners
I understand that character interactions allow for jokes. But I've never watched this show thinking "oh I Dean because I relate to him" or "I'm really happy the Monarch and Dr Girlfriend got married." Nor have I thought "how can they succeed? The soul of the Venture Bros is their constant clutching of defeat from the jaws of victory."
I don't really mean "like the characters" in terms of relating to them or being emotionally invested in them i guess, it is more because I find them funny and well rounded, and enjoy seeing how they develop over the seasons. In my head that's different to laughing at a joke, who knows. I just like VB
I love how it started out as a riff on Johnny Quest and other low budget Hannah Barbara adventure schlocks that blossomed into the grand tapestry it is now. >tfw been watching it since Day 1
The best thing is that it never lost that Johnny Quest/Boy Adventurer themeing. We have our heroes and villains, probably operating in the most realistic version of "superheroes and adventurers really exist" ever, and the show still feels like some washed up former child star trying to deal with his abuse and trauma and his kids, who he's dumping his own traumas on to, and the world around them. Dean is slowly becoming an evil mastermind, and Hank is slowly becoming the adventurous foil to his brother. It's beautiful.
I hesitate to use the term "perfect", but it really is. There are few shows where the writing is so good that everyone feels very real and the world lived-in with an almost effortless grace and natural progression, with seemingly inconsequential MacGuffins used as one-off jokes in earlier seasons turning out to be incredibly detailed and logical plot devices in later seasons. It has some of the most brilliant writing I've ever seen and has a mixture of every kind of joke imaginable, from the typical blasé pop culture reference of the current MCU/Rick & Morty quip age to clever wordplay and insanely funny running jokes. Doc and Publick are awesome guys.
Hilarity notwithstanding, the show's characters are insanely likeable and very well written. The whole premise and larger plot is just incredible after S1 and the attention to detail paid to continuity that puts almost every other show to shame. The world feels very real and the actions characters take highly believable and logical.
Oh yeah, my bad. Both are great characters regardless. As another anon pointed out, TVB is the only show I've watched where the characters get more fleshed out and likeable and not just caricatures the longer the show goes; the anti-Flanderization Effect.
Unban me and well talk as much as we did in 2008 on Cinemaphile.
I dont really get how this is so hard so what if i make fun of russians weve done that for like 10 years just fricking unban me and i can share all the pics that are usually in these threads, my phone doesnt have 1tb of space and i cant change my mac address again or my wife will kill me.
What makes you think id stop loving this shit?
The last time I met other people who watched this show I was a freshman in college. Our whole floor watched the DVDs on an Xbox 360 in our common room. That was 2011.
>ur whole floor watched the DVDs on an Xbox 360 in our common room.
SOVL
brings back memories of watching Family Guy on my friends 360 after a long night of Black Ops
In my senior year of college (2013-14), I had all the DVDs to Samurai Jack (S5 hadn't been released yet), YuYu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin. We watched them all the latter two, dubbed, of course for maximum nostalgia. Fricking kino.
Nope, those are their peak. Perfect Hair Forever is another one that's oft-overlooked. Early Squidbillies and Superjail are also kino. Harvey Birdman, Metalacolypse and Stroker & Hoop are also great.
>loyal
she fricked phantom limb, wanted to frick brock and also she fricked manataur in a cuck roleplay the monarch literally says cuckolding is normal for bad guys in the prom episode finale.
zoomer, watched the whole show a month or two ago, if you're well versed in music shit and a few other things it should all track. The barbarella segment was pure fricking kino.
I'll always remember watching this for the first time from my friends bunk bed while sleeping over, it was a molotov wienertease and we're dying at every little joke since we had never even seen anything "inappropriate" in a cartoon before, then she wiener blocks him, we laugh, he stands up and says "I gotta take of something" with a huge fricking boner and we're losing it, next he's in the bathroom and making loud grunts and my friends mom comes in to tell us to shut the frick up because his dad has to work in the morning
Later I learned his dad would beat the shit out of his mom at any small annoyance and I felt bad
True. The pop culture references are way more subtle and aren't beaten into the ground like Family Guy or Rick & Morty. They even use the references more often than not to flesh out their characters that initially seem like one-note caricatures of whatever they're referencing. Not so with TVB. It goes into much further depth and makes the characters its own, to the point where you can genuinely sympathize and even empathize with pretty much all the characters. That is an EXTREMELY rare skill in writing, yet Doc and Publick pull it off time and time again. It's nuts how good they are at it too, as well as the care they take with creating new characters.
I love how Doc and Jackson use pop culture references to flesh out the characters, especially with Hank. His Batman autism nver stops being fun (especially since they let him actually be a Batman-tier badass for an episode) and I also enjoy the smaller details- like how watching Dog Day Afternoon in between seasons 3 and 4 obviously had a big effect on his attitude, or how he ditches his boy band outfits for a Le Mans jacket after Brock mentions how he likes Steve Mcqueen more than Bieber.
This thread is like twilight zone for me. I was never much of a fan personally, but from my perspective, the whole world seems to like it. Who the hell are these people who haven't seen it that you're running into?
Metalocalypse I could get because that shit puts people off right from the intro. Definitely a bigger filter than venture.
Im still here bro just 30 day banned for anti-putin memes.
Can someone translate this from incelese to standard nerd.
Get lost, newbie.
Have sex
I think he means the media is so filtering that no one likes it
Kys newbie
OP is under the impression that The Venture Bros "filters" people as if it's some higher form of kino. In reality, it was kino for it's first two seasons, then it devolved into severe navel-gazing homosexualry.
>you guys watch rick and morty?
>i prefer venture bros.
>... i haven't seen that one
every time
>"Man these waits between R&M seasons are way too long"
>"Y-yeah. ha ha..."
at least Gargantua 2 was probably the high point of the entire series
The fight between killinger and the investors is the best magic fight I've seen since the shakashuri blowdown
>mfw it's revealed that in reality they're just standing still while the battle unfolds in their minds
absolute trevesty
Im here with you 🙂
I identify as Hankdean, as opposed to Deanhank
literally gets good 20 hours in, normals cant do it
I listened to the commentary on their last season and they sounded so disinterested in their own show but still smuggly said they were getting an 8th season.
The new president of Adult Swim wasnt putting up with their shit anymore.
Funny if true
Listen to the commentary. Its so cringy hearing "we'll pick up on this in S8" and knowing what happened.
The only reason the VB stayed on as long as they did was because of the President of the channel liked them. Now that he left they weren't going to put up with their long turn around times for episodes and canceled them.
That's funny. I hated the NYC seasons because the plots either ended way too quickly or were too boring to follow. Like the whole guild thing with Doc being offered as a sacrifice to the Monarch is just a big build-up to him saying frick you, and to balance out all that waiting we have Brock kill a bunch of guild goons that were there for no reason.
I'm currently watching it, just started S3.
Is there a better character than Dr. Orpheus?
"Radical Left" was my fav even though he didnt do much
for me it's Pleasure Toast
Blasphemers!
Several, while other get better with age
Forgot pic
He is objectively a better father than Jonas Venture.
>The Guild before your time tried to do a hostage thing. Jonas Venture. The big man and his space station. Ah the 80's, we did that back then. Dumb kid's gonna get famous. Notorious. We dressed as crew members. Some of us had our space suits on, some of us didn't. With this face? The helmet never came off. Went perfectly. Flawless. Well, until someone opened the bay doors. No one knew who did it. The crew shot out like their mommas were ringing the dinner bell. You ever see a man die in space? You can tell the one's that held their breath. Their lungs rupture from all that gasss expanding. Blood from their mouth like a torn pillow stuffed with red BBs. Stab Girl, she was a little thing, carried switch blades. She knew to exhale. Watched her for a full minute, puffed up like she had a peanut allergy. Floating by me with her mouth open... screaming, making no sound, the spit on her tongue boiling. Anyway, got to see a little Sharky's Machine!
Why is Clancy brown so good
dude has just been crushing it for like 40 years
i also like how the more recent seasons have cast the VAs from the DCAU's Batman (Captain Sunshine), Lex Luthor (Red Death), and Joker (Presto Change-O)
Some have better peaks, but Orpheus is up there for consistency.
A lot of characters start out kind of one-note or annoying but become a lot more developed or likeable as the show goes on, like Dermott or Shore Leave
basically the direct opposite of the flanders effect
No, he's the best one and unfortunately he appears less and less later on. Season 2 was the most Orpheus and coincidentally the show's best season.
Colonel Gentleman's List of best Venture Bros Characters
#1 Colonel Gentleman
#2 Watch and Ward
#3 Brock Samson
#4 Hank Venture
#5 Colonel Hunter Gathers
#6 Henchman 21 Gary
#7 Dr. Orpheus
#8 Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture
#9 H.E.L.P.eR
#10 Dean Venture
#11 Brick Frog
#12 The Action Man
#13 The Monarch
#14 Dr. Henry Killinger
#15 Henchman 24
#16 Dr. Z
#17 Action Johnny
#18 Augustus St Cloud
#19 Baron Werner Ünderbheit
#20 Fat Chance
#21 Shore Leave
#22 Red Mantle and Dragoon
#23 Dr. Mrs. The Monarch formerly Dr. Girlfriend
#24 Phantom Limb
#25 Professor Impossible
#26 The Alchemist
#27 The Cap'n
#28 Master Billy Quizboy
#29 Pete White
#30 The Master
You know this scene was cut down a lot? His list is like 5 minutes in the original version
Also
>Red Mantle and Dragoon so low on the list
Every single line they have is great tho
>#11 Brick Frog
also props for giving a shout out to my boy Fat Chance
>"you must become fat choice"
Red Mantle and Dragoon should be higher, Shore Leave too.
Molitov wienertease and Dermott should appear somewhere too, lose The Master and Prof. Impossible and that's a solid list. Man I hate H.Jon Benjamin as a VA.
>Man I hate H.Jon Benjamin as a VA.
I like him as saddam
he was good as a can of soup in Wet Hot American Summer
it has major flaws, but at heart its a solid list.
I have the titmouse venture bros S5 t shirt club shirts still. at least the ones my ex didnt steal.
SPANIKOPITA!!!!
that would be some KINO. have everyone looking at them and shit explodes with investors getting fricked up.
its how they should do saidar battles in WOT.
gays reproduce by touching children
pretty based.
Get the dvdrips with the extra scenes and uncensored they come with some fun extras too
Commie Venturestein was cool even they only brought him back for one episode. His goal of creating a sovreign nation for all the victims of super-science was very sympathetic, and I think the show would've benefited from it's own version of Big Boss.
Also, Sgt Hatred should've stayed with Venturestein's group instead of sticking around for season 6 and 7.
The Blue Morpho, of course!
Red Death
This list ends at season 5
Forgot pic
I watched all the venture brothers recently, and while there are some aspects I enjoy, it meanders and backpeddles all the time damn time, which is extremely jarring when binging the show. Even the best parts, the character development, gets strangely thrown out and brought back in to get thrown out more than once.
I think it was overall pretty good.
Grow up.
You first.
Persona is overrated, Bergman peaked with winter light
IF THE homosexual DISCOVERY EXECS FRICK UP THE MOVIE
I
WILL
GO
APESHIT
>been watching this show for 6 years
>megafan, have all the DVDs, soundtracks and the art book
>only met another person who watches this a month ago
So this is what it's like when doves cry.
I tell my friends to give it a chance but they cant make it through the first season.
never get people to start with season 1. I usually tell people to start anywhere mid-season 2 and go back if they like it. "escape to the house of mummies pt 2" was the first episode I ever saw and it immediately piqued my interest
it's not like the spoilers from the end of s1 really matter anyway
>escape to the house of mummies pt 2
I spent a good few days trying to find part 1 when that episode premiered. Somehow convinced myself that Hammer and Publick weren't just trolling with that title.
that's why i always liked it as an introductory episode. You're thrown into the middle of the story with no context, but that's exactly the point of the episode
>cut him open, we're gonna put the boy in there
>pwheh, and I thought he smelt bad on the outside!
>Oooooh. Yeah, of course. Oil! Yeah, makes sense now. I thought you told me to fill it with hot voile.
>W-what the hell is "voile"?
>It's a soft sheer fabric. I warmed some up in the dryer.
>What th- Are you insane? What kind of torture is that? Get out here! I'm serious! I don't even wanna look at you anymore
>GIVE ME THE HAND OF OSIRIS
> Give me head
Legend
Brocks line "This is getting STUPID" lives rent free in my head to this day
For me it's
READY THE ACID MAGNET
For me its "Im not yelling at you, Im telling at you"
That and "Keep it clean. Dont let dames get in the way."
super fricking runaway
Thanks for making the thread, it makes me feel less alone. VB is my absolute favourite show, and also I always put it on while lifting for Brock inspo. The early seasons really capture that pulp adventure feel that I loved so much as a kid, although personally I was more into puppet shows like Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray than Johnny Quest. There's still plenty of references to those like the OSI Hoverquarters.
For me 'student green is people..... IT'S A MADHOUSE! A MADHOUSE!'
Season 1 is rough, I only persevered because everyone said Season 2 was so much better. There are gems in it though, the pirate episode, Rusty's old college roommate, all the Brock freakouts. It's more enjoyable on rewatch because you understand everyone's characters more.
>It's more enjoyable on rewatch
I definitely agree with this, I remember not liking the first season at all but I really enjoyed it on rewatching.
I think all the GCI and stuff world building has gotten a little bit out of hand in the later seasons and season 1 is just so simple and charming by comparison
Also I think the gag where Samson just throws a screaming Major Tom off the side of the ship in the Ghost Pirates episode, and the Captain is just like
>"Well we could've done that."
Is maybe my favorite gag in the entire show, the timing is just so funny
My favourite part of season 1 is when Major Tom is crashing to Earth and him and ground control are just quoting Bowie lyrics.
I never understood this. I liked the show a lot more after the first season but season one was still really fun to watch. It’s funny, the action is great, and the characters are already likable
Literally me
Same
>tfw bought the first 3 or 4 seasons off XBL
bro fr the feels when u meet a bro
I finally sat down and watched the first season about a year ago, which is definitely the weakest, but is retroactively made great because of the absolutely AUTISTIC attention to continuity and natural character development the writers have. You can tell this show comes from a place of love and passion by the end of the second season, which is when I got fully hooked and watched everything. Not only one of the best cartoons ever made, but one of the best TV shows period. I was VERY sad when adult swim said they were getting rid of it. I implore friends to stick with it as the first season is the most episodic and still trying to find its stride, but it legitimately has some of the best characters in any medium I've ever seen. They're simultaneously ridiculous and very grounded and believable as real people.
Operation PROM was the perfect finale imho
>The run back to the hanger with that song
Kino. Chills every time
I'm glad we got way more seasons but if this had been the series finale as intended that would've been a-okay with me
Everyone talks about that ending, but this is my favorite season intro to any show ever.
And they didn't even get the song they ACTUALLY wanted to get.
Same. It's just so goddamn perfect. Pure, distilled kino.
Which song did they want? I thought this one fit really well.
The information was played on the AS bump before the episode premiered. I can't find the bump, but here's some info on it: Specifically, I can't find anything about this, so it might have been asked at a Comic-Con or something like that, since I attended every single one.
>An eighth of the budget of this episode was spent on licensing for the song "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)" by Tim Cox and Nigel Swanston featuring Rozalla, specifically the 2002 Aquagen remix, which played over the opening montage.
>The producers had to fight tooth and nail with Cartoon Network to give them the licensing to do so, a fact parodied in the later episode Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny.
Is that song available anywhere? I’ve looked and no dice.
Hot tip for any Cinemaphileutists lurking in this thread: Like A Friend also goes really well with Chaper 97 of Chainsaw Man. You just have to pace your reading a little bit so that the song ends just as you get to the final page.
>That run to the hangar
>that song
>that perfect moment where everything is gonna be all right
>that even more perfect moment when everything is gonna be all right by being all wrong
>FIX IT!
>Song continues during the credits
It was the perfect ending, I loved it so much. That said, I still enjoyed the seasons after it.
sneed
so it got canceled?
Yes. But there is a film in the works to wrap things up.
And with their working schedule, it should see release sometime in 2052.
One thing that I never thought about until recently is just how much the Venture Bros is a purely masculine show.
It's all about legacy, discovery and appreciation of art.
We get pure brutalist action, then deep character drama then just pulpy nerd shit which is Doc Hammer gushing over Duran Duran or David Bowie.
Just a pure, based show.
I don't really like season 4 though (besides the last 3 episodes), Jackson said he got burnout during that one and it really shows, the only time the show really spun its wheels and got on my nerves.
Can't wait for the movie. The Aqua Teen DVD movie is coming out in November so hopefully the Venture one will be early 2023.
funny, s4 is head and shoulders above as my favourite season, with most of my favourite episodes. I also thought Brock was kind of stale as the bodyguard by s3 and I liked the hank/sgt. hatred dynamic more. I would never have guessed JP was burnt out during it, it felt like they were doing the most fun stuff during that period
Yeah, so Seasons 3 and 4 were ordered back to back because Season 2 did so well in the ratings. Each of them were meant to be 13 episodes, as soon as they finished Season 3, they began on Season 4 straight away without taking a break.
They got really stressed and overworked, and had a late 2009 deadline to meet.
Jackson went to Lazzo and said "How about we just finish the 8 we're working on now, and I'll give you 8 next year as well?", and he got to take a big holiday.
That's why season 4 has 16 episodes and went on hiatus in the middle.
>go Team Venture
JJbros...
>genuine nice guy who just wants to make the world a better place
>Rusty hates him and he gets killed off
His death scene in Gargantua 2, Rusty suddenly realises he'll miss him, it's pretty sad stuff.
🙁
Does anyone enjoy this show for anything other than the jokes?
I like how the show sort of unfolds like a big comic book, the characters are well written too
The actions scenes are fun and the character drama is insanely relatable. Rusty being in the shadow of his father just ads so much to the show and its rewatchability.
Yeah, the worldbuilding is great, they take care with a lot of stuff that most shows wouldn't and there's a lot of littered details that make everything feel super thought out.
I clap every time I recognize a reference
I like the characters and the worldbuilding I guess? I don't know, most of the humour just comes from the characters and their banter rather than big jokes or one liners
Fricking loved that about the last season... when the monarch is mentoring st. Cloud? The villain laugh bit was the greatest thing I've ever seen
I understand that character interactions allow for jokes. But I've never watched this show thinking "oh I Dean because I relate to him" or "I'm really happy the Monarch and Dr Girlfriend got married." Nor have I thought "how can they succeed? The soul of the Venture Bros is their constant clutching of defeat from the jaws of victory."
I just like it because it's funny.
I don't really mean "like the characters" in terms of relating to them or being emotionally invested in them i guess, it is more because I find them funny and well rounded, and enjoy seeing how they develop over the seasons. In my head that's different to laughing at a joke, who knows. I just like VB
I love how it started out as a riff on Johnny Quest and other low budget Hannah Barbara adventure schlocks that blossomed into the grand tapestry it is now.
>tfw been watching it since Day 1
The best thing is that it never lost that Johnny Quest/Boy Adventurer themeing. We have our heroes and villains, probably operating in the most realistic version of "superheroes and adventurers really exist" ever, and the show still feels like some washed up former child star trying to deal with his abuse and trauma and his kids, who he's dumping his own traumas on to, and the world around them. Dean is slowly becoming an evil mastermind, and Hank is slowly becoming the adventurous foil to his brother. It's beautiful.
I hesitate to use the term "perfect", but it really is. There are few shows where the writing is so good that everyone feels very real and the world lived-in with an almost effortless grace and natural progression, with seemingly inconsequential MacGuffins used as one-off jokes in earlier seasons turning out to be incredibly detailed and logical plot devices in later seasons. It has some of the most brilliant writing I've ever seen and has a mixture of every kind of joke imaginable, from the typical blasé pop culture reference of the current MCU/Rick & Morty quip age to clever wordplay and insanely funny running jokes. Doc and Publick are awesome guys.
Yes. Dean is literally me, but I keep watching and rewatching in the hopes that I learn how to become Hank.
it is very un Hank of you to wish to become Hank. There is only one who is Hank enough to wear that name and he is Enrico Matassa.
Hilarity notwithstanding, the show's characters are insanely likeable and very well written. The whole premise and larger plot is just incredible after S1 and the attention to detail paid to continuity that puts almost every other show to shame. The world feels very real and the actions characters take highly believable and logical.
>the shows characters are insanely well written
they made a GAY PEDOPHILE into a likeable character. no other show i've ever seen could even try doing that
Based Shore Leave appreciator.
he means sgt. hatred, shore leave wasn't a pedo
Oh yeah, my bad. Both are great characters regardless. As another anon pointed out, TVB is the only show I've watched where the characters get more fleshed out and likeable and not just caricatures the longer the show goes; the anti-Flanderization Effect.
>A lil baby tongue *waggles shrunken tongue*
That clip keeps popping into my head and I can't stop it.
Unban me and well talk as much as we did in 2008 on Cinemaphile.
I dont really get how this is so hard so what if i make fun of russians weve done that for like 10 years just fricking unban me and i can share all the pics that are usually in these threads, my phone doesnt have 1tb of space and i cant change my mac address again or my wife will kill me.
What makes you think id stop loving this shit?
WHAT
Season 1 can be quite the filter. It feels like a different show compared to the other seasons.
Imagine being over 12 years old and watching cartoons
The last time I met other people who watched this show I was a freshman in college. Our whole floor watched the DVDs on an Xbox 360 in our common room. That was 2011.
sounds like an absolutely kino experience. I bet my roommate would have really loved this show as well.
>ur whole floor watched the DVDs on an Xbox 360 in our common room.
SOVL
brings back memories of watching Family Guy on my friends 360 after a long night of Black Ops
In my senior year of college (2013-14), I had all the DVDs to Samurai Jack (S5 hadn't been released yet), YuYu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin. We watched them all the latter two, dubbed, of course for maximum nostalgia. Fricking kino.
>post filters so hard it leaves you lonely
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Nobody will ever watch that show, no matter how hard you sell it, which is bad because it is the funniest show ever made.
>normie redditor coworker says xhe loves archer
>recommend frisky dingo as the better show archer was based off of
uhh anon, i didnt really like it
Definitely the funniest show Adult Swim ever did. Way better than Archer.
Frisky Dingo? It was ok. Nothing groundbreaking or anything though.
>The Ballocaust
Still makes me laugh
That and the lyrics to ALL that JIZZ
Frisky Dingo and Xavier: Renegade Angel are still the best things adult swim ever did besides The Venture Bros.
>I'll have to check with Gary
>Who the hell's Gary?
>Ohhhh
Ive waited this long for them to wrap everything up but I still hope they keep going after. Its the best cartoon ever made.
does AS even air anything that compares to venture bros, ATHF, xavier, frisky dingo anymore?
Nope, those are their peak. Perfect Hair Forever is another one that's oft-overlooked. Early Squidbillies and Superjail are also kino. Harvey Birdman, Metalacolypse and Stroker & Hoop are also great.
>Stroker & Hoop
underrated and forgotten
how is she so perfect bros?
>she
shouldn't you be getting pegged by an Amazon right now, Brock?
>smart and sexy
>loyal to her dorky husband
the voice grew on me too
>loyal
she fricked phantom limb, wanted to frick brock and also she fricked manataur in a cuck roleplay the monarch literally says cuckolding is normal for bad guys in the prom episode finale.
nobody's perfect
besides Monarch was literally fricking then torturing hookers at the same time
I mean he asked her to frick manotaur, i believe he said they were swingers.
And once they got married she was loyal to the ends of the earth except for making out with gary
cuck cope. even molotov more loyal to brock.
>never took off her chastity belt for brock
>taunted him about how she took it off for monstroso
>fricked monstroso while she knew he was watching
what kind of humor do venture bros have? will i like it if i liked futurama?
People who like Futurama tend to like Venture Bros from my experience
allright thanks, gonna give it a try
As mentioned in this thread anon, if you start with season 1 be aware it's a bit rough and really picks up with season 2, otherwise enjoy
imagine the feeling you get when u make a really good inside joke w/ a friend, now add references and meta observations.
imo its the best tv show ever made
I suggested we watch this movie in school. We did and my teacher yelled at me in front of the class.
Sorry b***h for having taste.
I know Cinemaphile probably hasn't seen the former, but if I liked Kim Possible, will I like this show?
Obviously we have seen both. Both are good. Venture is better. It had the Prodigy.
Yes. The 60s-80s references are HEAVY in Venture Bros though and might go over your head if you're a younger Millennial or Zoomer.
zoomer, watched the whole show a month or two ago, if you're well versed in music shit and a few other things it should all track. The barbarella segment was pure fricking kino.
SMURFS DON'T LAY EGGS!
PAPA SMURF HAS A FRICKING BEARD!
THEY'RE MAMMALS!!!
I'll always remember watching this for the first time from my friends bunk bed while sleeping over, it was a molotov wienertease and we're dying at every little joke since we had never even seen anything "inappropriate" in a cartoon before, then she wiener blocks him, we laugh, he stands up and says "I gotta take of something" with a huge fricking boner and we're losing it, next he's in the bathroom and making loud grunts and my friends mom comes in to tell us to shut the frick up because his dad has to work in the morning
Later I learned his dad would beat the shit out of his mom at any small annoyance and I felt bad
Is the movie still coming out? I watched this when it first came out. I used to download episodes off suprnova.
Soon tm
Venture Bros. is the actual "to be fair you have to have a high IQ..." animated series.
True. The pop culture references are way more subtle and aren't beaten into the ground like Family Guy or Rick & Morty. They even use the references more often than not to flesh out their characters that initially seem like one-note caricatures of whatever they're referencing. Not so with TVB. It goes into much further depth and makes the characters its own, to the point where you can genuinely sympathize and even empathize with pretty much all the characters. That is an EXTREMELY rare skill in writing, yet Doc and Publick pull it off time and time again. It's nuts how good they are at it too, as well as the care they take with creating new characters.
I love how Doc and Jackson use pop culture references to flesh out the characters, especially with Hank. His Batman autism nver stops being fun (especially since they let him actually be a Batman-tier badass for an episode) and I also enjoy the smaller details- like how watching Dog Day Afternoon in between seasons 3 and 4 obviously had a big effect on his attitude, or how he ditches his boy band outfits for a Le Mans jacket after Brock mentions how he likes Steve Mcqueen more than Bieber.
I’m never watching this unfunny show
>iphone homosexual
>redditfrog.jpg
>nothing interesting, just low IQ trolling
just go back
i dont want you to
i STILL need to watch the later seasons
I still find this to be better than South Park because the whole cast isn't voiced by two gays doing it up the ass with their tongues.
Season 7 was incredible. This episode had so much soul it hurt
I actually thought this episode was pretty cringe tbh
Eat the pennies, Quizboy.
>Mmmmmeat the pennies, Mquizboy
Is this the one where he uses the puppet from Lamb Chop as a shower mitt? I grew up watching the show and shared Billy’s outrage.
This thread has convinced me to rewatch the series even though I just finished a rewatch a few months ago.
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When i rewatch something i try to limit it to 1 episode a day to really savor the moment
The great filter.
Unironically one of the greatest cartoons ever made. Probably even tops many great "normal" tv shows.
Never met anyone else who likes it nearly as much as I do
Living on scientific military compound in the middle of nowhere seems like peak comfy
If any of you haven't already - check out the venture bros book, super interesting for fans and it can't hurt supporting them a little
also why is the captcha so frickin hard these days christ
it's sold out everywhere and 350+ on ebay unfortunately
I just got one off amazon for 30 bucks
am I moronic?
https://www.amazon.com/Go-Team-Venture-Making-Bros/dp/1506704875
>https://www.amazon.com/Go-Team-Venture-Making-Bros/dp/1506704875
I bought mine in Uk and imported, its sold out there too tho. keep checking thats what i did
I loved Dragoon and Red Mantle. I wish we had more of their backstory.
The Funimation dub is hilarious but I’m pretty sure I’m the only one who watched it.
This thread is like twilight zone for me. I was never much of a fan personally, but from my perspective, the whole world seems to like it. Who the hell are these people who haven't seen it that you're running into?
Metalocalypse I could get because that shit puts people off right from the intro. Definitely a bigger filter than venture.